## Bava Batra Daf 61a

###### Bava Batra 61a:1
[Bava Batra 61a:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Bava%20Batra/r/61a:1)

**הַמּוֹכֵר אֶת הַבַּיִת** – לֹא מָכַר יָצִיעַ, וְאַף עַל פִּי שֶׁהִיא פְּתוּחָה לְתוֹכוֹ; וְלֹא אֶת הַחֶדֶר שֶׁלְּפָנִים הֵימֶנּוּ; וְלֹא אֶת הַגָּג – בִּזְמַן שֶׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ מַעֲקֶה גָּבוֹהַּ עֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: אִם יֵשׁ לוֹ צוּרַת פֶּתַח, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאֵינוֹ גָּבוֹהַּ עֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים – אֵינוֹ מָכוּר.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**MISHNA:** One **who sells a house** without specifying what is included in the sale **has not sold the gallery,** an extension built above or alongside the main building, **and** this is so **even if** the gallery is attached to the house and **opens into it. Nor** has he sold **the room behind** the house, even if it is accessible only from inside the house. He has **also not** sold **the roof when it has a parapet ten handbreadths high,** as such a roof is considered a separate entity and is therefore not included in the sale of the house. **Rabbi Yehuda says: If** the parapet **has the form of a doorway,** that is, if it consists of two upright posts with a beam crossing over them, then **even if** the parapet **is not ten handbreadths high,** the roof **is not sold** together with the house, unless it is specifically included in the sale.


###### Bava Batra 61a:2
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**גְּמָ׳** מַאי ״יָצִיעַ״? הָכָא תַּרְגִּימוּ: אַפְּתָא. רַב יוֹסֵף אָמַר: בַּדְקָא חֲלִילָה. לְמַאן דְּאָמַר אַפְּתָא לָא מִזְדַּבְּנָא – כׇּל שֶׁכֵּן בַּדְקָא חֲלִילָה לָא מִזְדַּבְּנָא; לְמַאן דְּאָמַר בַּדְקָא חֲלִילָה – אֲבָל אַפְּתָא מִזְדַּבְּנָא.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**GEMARA:** **What is a gallery? Here** in Babylonia **they interpreted** this as referring to **an attic [*apta*]. Rav Yosef said:** It means **a windowed structure [*bidka ḥalila*]** attached to the main building. The Gemara notes that **according to the one who says** that **an attic is not sold** together with a house, **all the more so is a windowed structure** attached to the house **not sold** together with a house, as it is certainly considered a separate entity and not part of the main building. But **according to the one who says** that a gallery is **a windowed structure** attached to the house, it is only such a structure that is not included in the sale of the house, **but an attic is sold** together with a house.


###### Bava Batra 61a:3
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תָּאנֵי רַב יוֹסֵף: שָׁלֹשׁ שֵׁמוֹת יֵשׁ לוֹ – יָצִיעַ, צֵלָע, תָּא. יָצִיעַ – דִּכְתִיב: ״הַיָּצִיעַ הַתַּחְתֹּנָה חָמֵשׁ בָּאַמָּה רׇחְבָּהּ״. צֵלָע – דִּכְתִיב: ״וְהַצְּלָעוֹת צֵלָע אֶל צֵלָע שָׁלֹשׁ וּשְׁלֹשִׁים פְּעָמִים״. תָּא – דִּכְתִיב: ״וְהַתָּא קָנֶה אֶחָד אֹרֶךְ וְקָנֶה אֶחָד רֹחַב, וּבֵין הַתָּאִים חָמֵשׁ אַמּוֹת״. וְאִי בָּעֵית אֵימָא, מֵהָכָא: ״כּוֹתֶל הַהֵיכָל שֵׁשׁ, וְהַתָּא שֵׁשׁ, כּוֹתֶל הַתָּא חָמֵשׁ״.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rav Yosef taught:** A small structure attached to a building **has three names** in the Bible: **Gallery [*yatzia*], side chamber [*tzela*],** and **cell [*ta*].** Such a structure is called **a gallery, as it is written: “The bottommost gallery [*hayyatzia*] was five cubits wide”** (I Kings 6:6). It is also called **a side chamber, as it is written: “And the side chambers [*vehatzelaot*] were one over another, thirty-three times”** (Ezekiel 41:6). Additionally, it is called **a cell, as it is written: “And the cell [*vehata*] was one reed long, and one reed wide; and the space between the cells was five cubits”** (Ezekiel 40:7). **And if you wish, say** instead that it can be seen that a small structure attached to a building is called a cell **from here,** as was taught in the mishna (*Middot* 4:7): **The wall of the Sanctuary** was **six** cubits wide, **and the cell [*vehata*]** in back of it was **six** cubits wide, and **the wall of the cell** was **five** cubits wide.


###### Bava Batra 61a:4
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אָמַר מָר זוּטְרָא: וְהוּא דְּהָוֵי אַרְבַּע אַמּוֹת.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ Relating to the mishna’s statement that a gallery is not included in the sale of a house, **Mar Zutra said: And that** is the *halakha* only **when** the gallery **has** an area of at least **four** by four **cubits.**


###### Bava Batra 61a:5
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אֲמַר לֵיהּ רָבִינָא לְמָר זוּטְרָא: לְדִידָךְ דְּאָמְרַתְּ עַד דְּהָוֵי אַרְבַּע אַמּוֹת; אֶלָּא מֵעַתָּה, גַּבֵּי בוֹר דִּתְנַן: לֹא אֶת הַבּוֹר וְלֹא אֶת הַדּוּת – אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁכָּתַב לוֹ עוּמְקָא וְרוּמָא; הָכִי נָמֵי אִי הָווּ אַרְבַּע אַמּוֹת – אִין, אִי לָא – לָא?

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Ravina said to Mar Zutra: According to your** opinion, **that you say** a gallery is not excluded from the sale of a house **unless it is** at least **four** by four **cubits** in size, there is a difficulty. As **if that is so,** then **with regard to** the exclusion of **a pit** or a cistern from the sale of a house, **about which we learned** in a mishna (64a): One who sells a house has sold **neither the pit nor the cistern, even if he writes for** the buyer in the bill of sale that he is selling **him the depth and the height** of the house; **so too,** should we say that only **if they have** an area of at least **four** by four **cubits, yes,** they are excluded from the sale of the house, but **if not, no,** they are not excluded? This is difficult, as a pit is not four cubits wide, and consequently, it would never be excluded.


###### Bava Batra 61a:6
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הָכִי הַשְׁתָּא?! הָתָם – הָא תַּשְׁמִישְׁתָּא לְחוּד, וְהָא תַּשְׁמִישְׁתָּא לְחוּד; הָכָא – אִידֵּי וְאִידֵּי חֲדָא תַּשְׁמִישְׁתָּא הִיא; אִי הָוֵי אַרְבַּע אַמּוֹת – חֲשִׁיב, וְאִי לָא – לָא חֲשִׁיב.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
Mar Zutra responded: **How can** these cases **be compared? There,** in that mishna, **this,** the excavations, have **a discrete use,** to store water, and they cannot possibly be used as living quarters, **and that,** the house, has **a discrete use,** to serve as living quarters, and so they are considered separate entities even if the excavation is not four cubits wide. But **here,** in the case of a gallery, both **this,** the gallery, **and that,** the house, **have the same use,** and so **if** the gallery **is** at least **four** by four **cubits** it is deemed **significant** and considered a separate entity, **but if** it is **not** four by four cubits, it is **not** deemed **significant** in its own right, but simply another part of the house.


###### Bava Batra 61a:7
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וְלֹא אֶת הַחֶדֶר שֶׁלִּפְנִים הֵימֶנּוּ. הַשְׁתָּא יָצִיעַ לָא מִיזְדַּבַּן, חֶדֶר מִיבַּעְיָא?!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The mishna teaches that one who sells a house without specifying what is included in the sale has not sold the gallery, **nor** has he sold **the room behind** the house, even if it is accessible only **from it.** The Gemara asks: **Now** that the mishna taught that **a gallery is not sold** along with the house, **is** it **necessary** to teach that **a room** behind the house is not included in such a sale?